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amanda bennett

Feb 08 2026

Meet Carrboro’s Ninth Poet Laureate: Dr. Amanda Bennett


Amanda Bennett holding a book

—Arshia Simkin, The Underline When Amanda Bennett was in her twenties as a graduate student at Duke University, she was working on a dissertation about Black feminism; she remembers studying… Read More →

Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Featured Blogs, Monthly Features, The Underline · Tagged: amanda bennett, Arshia Simkin, carrboro poet laureate, chapel hill art and humanities, The Underline

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